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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

June 1, 2014
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Process

I had three rounds of interviews with Google within one month.

I received the information one month before the interviews, so I found some open judge websites to solve algorithm problems that I might encounter during the interviews.

Questions

We conducted the interview through Google Hangouts and coded in a Google Doc. In the first round of the interview, the interviewer asked me: given a set of points in the plane, output all the points which are collinear.

Given an array of numbers, output the array like this: a1 <= a2 >= a3 <= a4 >= a5...

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 142 interview experiences for the Google Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

9%
Pass Rate

Google's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive55%
Neutral28%
Negative17%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Google's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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